PATH XII (plates 76, 77)

Engrams: defence, annihilation, apotheosis. The Mother, the Angel, the golf player (prints, stamps)

Some examples of the persistence and regenerative force of the imprints from Antiquity – engrams of the Memory – still in a Northern European milieu.

In the works of Rubens and Delacroix in 17th Century prints, in stamps, in newspaper cuttings: the figures of Mothers and Nymphs find new, unexpected, spaces for re-emergence, even if de-semanticized, or unknowingly called to serve political power (the triumphal chariot of Neptune), or used in advertising (Nike), but, in whatever form, they are still charged with their original expressive energy.